Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
And Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?
And lo, he speaketh openly, and they say nothing unto him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is the Christ?